Marco Rubio Quotes

Success: When you make more money than the rest of us, it hurts our feelings.

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.

I'm not normally a jewelry person. I'm supposed to be a working class champion and all, and I don't like to rub my success in people's faces.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.

Money does not choose people.

People say law but they mean wealth.

You [a country] cannot be rich, successful and powerful and still be loved, particularly be those who have little success, wealth or power.

As income inequality increases, social mobility falls.

Like Venice’s oligarchs, America’s super-rich are destroying the social mobility that creates wealth.

It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'

You can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is and he's doing these things and he's getting rich.

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.

I love Romney. It is not his fault that he is the son of a successful governor and makes $20 million a year.

We're running out of rich people in this country.

That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.

When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.

With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just the other way around - it just generates that much more ambition in many people.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Many times, people attack the well-to-do people. They see an opportunity.

I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.

I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich.

The issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.

An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.